Ethics manual of @ACPinternists states: “the ethical imperative for physicians to provide care” overrides “the risk to the treating physician, even during epidemics.”
(Physicians) try to balance obligations as professionals w/their duties as husbands, wives, parents & children.
(Physicians) try to balance obligations as professionals w/their duties as husbands, wives, parents & children.
The risk to personal health from the coronavirus is alarming enough, but risk of infecting our families because of exposure on the job is for some unacceptable. Rates of infection among hcw ~14% of confirmed cases in Spain- risk of transmission to our loved ones not insignificant
👉Health care workers should not be forced to incur additional risk because people don’t want to practice social distancing (vacationers flocking to Florida beaches during spring break come to mind). nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opi…
We shouldn’t have to pay for shortsighted government policies that have already eviscerated public health infrastructure and may soon lead to the premature relaxation of social distancing rules.
🚨Health care workers may be heroes in this pandemic, but we will not be martyrs.
🚨Health care workers may be heroes in this pandemic, but we will not be martyrs.
